Guy Mannering

Walter Scott, Jane Milgate, Peter Garside , Claire Lamont

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Penguin Classics
07 July 2003

Literature, Poetry & Criticism; Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Based on the authoritative Edinburgh text which returns to the first edition of 1815 and manuscript

Guy Mannering is an astrologer who only half-believes in his art.

Instead he places his faith in patriarchal power, wealth and social position.

But the Scotland of this novel is a nation in which the old hierarchies are breaking down and Guy must learn the limits of the nabob's authority in a society in which each social group - from gypsies and smugglers, to Edinburgh lawyers, landowners and Border store farmers - lives by its own laws.

By: Walter Scott
Edited by: Jane Milgate
Volume editor: Peter Garside, Claire Lamont
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 350g
ISBN: 9780140436570
ISBN 10: 014043657X
Pages: 624
Publication Date: 07 July 2003
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Walter Scott (1771-1832) was born and educated in Edinburgh and is the foremost Romantic novelist in the English language. Also a poet, he is credited with establishing the form of the historical novel. Peter Garside is a reader in English Literature at the University of Wales, Cardiff. Jane Millgate is a professor of English at Victoria College, University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Walter Scott: The Making of a Novelist.